The Lesson of Cornell

A well-done piece in Slate about Cornell's run in the Ivy League men's basketball tournament might just as well be about Ivy League football. Consider the ending:

The fear, of course, is that the Ivies would be sucked into the vortex of intercollegiate athletic excess—millionaire coaches, big arenas, dicey recruiting—thereby negating the league's one great virtue. But the Ivy presidents have successfully enforced the league's academic standards for decades, and there's no reason they couldn't impose recruiting guidelines far tougher than the NCAA's. And the message to Kentucky and the other basketball factories would be powerful: We educate, we graduate, and we win. And not just when the stars align perfectly.

(Thanks for the link.)